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I P, RHIND. v SHADE HOLDER. No. 373,154. Patented Nov. 15, 1887 UNITED STATES Fries.

PATENT l FRANK RHIND, OF MERIDEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO EDWARD MILLER & COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

SHADE- SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 373,154, dated November 15, 1887.

Application filed May 2, 1887. Serial N 0. 236.828. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FRANK RHIND, a citizen of theUnited States,residing atMeriden,county of New Haven, and State of Connecticut, have 5 invented an Improvement in ShadeHolders adapted to Lamps and Gas-Fixtures, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to that classof shadeholders which has a central ring adapted to encircle a burner or lamp-collar and three or more arms projecting radially therefrom, said arms being in two parts connected at their outer ends and fitted with sliding ferrules or.

olasps, whereby the central ring is made adjustable to various sizes of burners and lamp collars, and is intended to provide a cheap and simple method of securing such adjustability. v 1

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 2o, represents in perspective a shade-holder embodying my improvements; Fig. 2, a detached integral portion of the same, consisting of an arm, apart of the central ring, and a brace or stiffener for an adjacent arm.

A designates an arm of a shade-holder; B, an arc-shaped portion of the central ring; 0, a brace or stiffener; 0, an eye formed at the end of the brace O; D, a sliding ferrule or clasp.

Similar letters rcferto similar parts in both views.

My invention is constructed and operated as follows: I form from a single piece of wire or band metal an arm, A, bent at its outerend to receive and support a shade-holder, an are- 3 5 shaped portion of a central ring, B, and a brace, 0, having at its outer end, and substantially at right angles to its length, an eye or loop, 0. The brace O is made shorter than the arm A, as it is found in practice that shade- 4o holder arms of this general form have little or no tendency to bend or sag under the weight of the shade at their outer ends, but that or otherwise attached to it. In constructing 'a' tripod the part B is formed to the shape of an arc of one hundred and twenty degrees, with the integrally-formed arm A and brace G projecting radially therefrom at the same angle. Three such integral pieces are then put together. The eye or loop 0, already partly formed, is then finished and firmly closed on the adjacent arm A. Sliding ferrules or clasps D are clasped on the arm A and brace C. When the ferrules D are pushed out nearly to the eyes a, the arms A and braces C may be slightly sprung or forced apart at their inner 5 ends, thereby enlarging the size of the central ring to enable it to be passed over a bead or projection on a burner or lamp collar, or to be adapted to small differences in the size of such burners or collars. When the ferrules D are 6 brought as near as possible to the ends of the arcshaped portions B, the central ring is reduced in size and is held firmly to the burner or collar. I have found it advantageous to use wire having arectangular or polygonal section; but this is non-essential to my invention. As shade-holders of this class are usually made in tripod form, I have illustrated this construction in my drawings and described it herein; but it is obvious that my invention is 7 applicable to any convenient number of arms, and that these arms may be either bent at their outer ends to receiveand support ashade, or they may be fitted with a ring for this purpose. I

I am aware that shade-holders having arms composed of two wires clasped by a sliding ferrule have been heretofore made, and that a patent for this invention was granted to E.

- E. Conrad, dated June 21, 1870, and numbered without waste of material. I do not, therefore, claim anything claimed or described in above patent; but

I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Pat- 5 cut, as follows:

Ashade holder formed of three or more integral parts, each consisting of an arm, an arc of a central ring, and a brace connected to but shorter than the adjacent arm, said brace being provided with an eye or loop adapted to IO engage said adjacent arm, substantially as described, and for the purposes set forth.

FRANK RHIND. \Vitnesses:

GEO. L. COOPER, GEO. M. GHITTENDEN. 

